Marijuana Use Has Increased in Colorado: Study
Marijuana Use Has Increased in Colorado: Study – According to a new national study, Colorado emerged as the state with the second-highest percentage of regular marijuana users as it began legalizing the drug.
The study by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found about 1 out of 8 Colorado residents older than 12 had used marijuana in the past month.
Only Rhode Island topped Colorado in the percentage of residents who reported using pot as often. It found that, for the 2011-2012 period, 10.4 percent of Colorado residents 12 and older said they had used pot in the month before being surveyed.
The survey is among the first to quantify pot use in Colorado since late 2012, when voters approved legal pot use and possession for those over 21. But the survey did not analyze data from 2014, when recreational marijuana shops opened, which means it is not a good indication of the effect of commercial sales on marijuana use.
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